Chicago centerback Bakary Soumare has been named to the roster by his country Mali for their upcoming World Cup qualifiers Sun Jun 7 v Ghana & Tue Jun 21 v Benin. Great for him. The bad news is that he will be away from the Fire for a long time then.

As the spring showcase of the US Soccer Development Academy kicks off in Sarasota FL, US Soccer gives us a nice video preview.

AMERICANS IN EUROPE

Oguchi Onyewu went the distance on Thu night and helped his team Standard Liege hold a 1-1 draw on the road at Anderlecht in their 2 legged playoff to determine the league champions of Belgium. The two teams were tied on points at the end of the season, so this is how they settle it.-Greg Seltzer at Soccer 365 is reporting that Onyewu was racially abused by an Anderlecht player in this game.

How did our boys do in the playoffs list night, you ask?-Jose Francisco Torres - Pachuca - started and went 79 minutes as his team won 0-2 at Indios.-Marco Vidal - Indios de Juarez - started but did not fair so well as he was subbed off at halftime, and they lost the first leg at home 0-2.

The Guardian with an article on Whack Jack Warner who is warning England to clean up its act as a part of their World Cup 2018 bid. Some pretty unsavory customers are floating around the scenes and Jack rightly takes exception to it. The only problem I have with this is that when ever any white person disagrees with Jack he plays the race card, so this serious matter can come off like the boy crying wolf.

Our great friend Brian Quarstad at Inside Minnesota Soccer posted a very cool reflection by Minnesota Thunder play by play man Chris Lindholm looking back to 1976 and his memories of the Minnesota Kicks team from the NASL. Brian also has some fun pictures that he himself took all those years ago. (They were both blown away to find Chris in one of Brian’s pictures!) I remember it being a fantastic time too. Those games, the TV show Soccer Made In Germany and my first coach Alex Becker changed my life. I hope you dig this

1 Comments:

Anonymous said...

Gooch called him a dirty flemish, ha, yeah right. I doubt that that phrase has ever been uttered by an american in all of history. We don't care about the flemish. Well not that we don't care but really when was the last time you even said the word flemish???? The closest I can think is phlegm.